I believe that it is a whole lifetime of work on Shakespeare's part that enabled him to do what he did. But the question is how you can explain this whole lifetime in such a way to make it accessible and available to us, to me.
Stephen GreenblattI was in Venice teaching, so I reread Henry James's "The Wings of the Dove." I love James.
Stephen GreenblattThrough reading literature we can make ghosts speak to us, and we can speak back to them.
Stephen Greenblatt[People in 1600s] didn't have many books. They would have been staggered by the personal libraries we have today, because books back then were incredibly expensive.
Stephen Greenblatt